Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election

I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.

I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.

With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.

YOU are your love of a lifetime.

My hope is in you, Mighty One!

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

London, dirty little pool of life

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really

Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.

Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.